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orders are shipped via USPS.
international orders are availible but will require more information. please e-mail ed.is.so.dead (at) gmail (dot) com for more info.

books are also available from:

on-line: Sweet Candy Distro, Parcell Press, Hark! Press

in MPLS: at Big Brain Comics, Arise! Bookstore, Extreme Noise, Treehouse Records, Amazon Bookstore, May Day Books, Source Comics and Games, the MCAD Art Cellar.

the greater world: Chicago Comics and Quimby's in Chicago, Atomic Books in Baltimore, St. Mark's Comics in NYC

Press: reviews from file under other (lovely review), The Daily Crosshatch (generous and constructive), The Comics Reporter (scroll down to see it; did NOT like me).

 

Mayflies & Slide Guitars

A collection of short cartoon stories from the past couple of years; some autobiographical, some fictional. Here... this explains better.

"This book is fantastic."
– Shannon Smith, File Under Other

“…Hardships in life [are] hard to conquer, yet they are eased into submission with the words and visuals of this book.”
– Gary Hornberger, Razorcake

“Moorman is definitely a talented writer, consistently interesting in each story… it whets the reader’s appetite for what’s to come next”
– Sarah Morean, The Daily Crosshatch

Brilliantly phrased and delicately drawn”
– Monica Anderson, Eye Candy

color cover, B&W interior, nice paper.

36 pp., Perfect Bound

comics 2005-2007

$5 $4 + $1.50 shipping and handling (contact for non-US orders)

 

read: "Sing Into My Mouth"

"on touching"

"Desire"

Know Your Rights:
A Guide to Panhandling and Human Rights in MPLS

Presented by St. Stephen's Human Services and Homeless Against Homelessness.

Older, experienced hobo Poet Mouse warns the young Maddie Mouse about inalieable human rights and how not to get busted while panhandling.

"This book gets at the heart of the matter and intelligently predicts and plays out scenarios that might really matter to a person who falls on hard times."
– Sarah Morean, The Daily Crosshatch

color cover, B&W interior. Bilingual.

January 2008

24 pp., saddle-stitched

read KNOW YOUR RIGHTS (web-format PDF)

 

Yo, I'm Ed!

Promotional, introductory mini made for MoCCA fest 2008. Collects my recent anthology work for Not My Small Diary #14, Good Minnesotan ep. #2, and the upcoming Ghost Comics benefit anthology (click for PDF preview).

24 pp., sewn

read: "Back Pages" Blonde on Blonde-era Bob Dylan gets in a nasty tiff with an increasingly hostile reporter.

read: "Dating Myself, My Dog, & My Friends, But No Boys"
Masturbation, basset-lab dewclaws, Valentine discoveries, and learning to live with leaving.

read: "Aloe"
My ghost goes on a desperate journey for closure.

 

Dreading Spring

A snowman and a robot explore their doomed romance.

color cover, B&W interior

16 pp., saddle-stitched

January 2007

$2 + $1 shipping and handling

read: Dreading Spring

 

sketchbook drawings

I was really sad one night and drew these all at once.

tiny and folded. 8 pp., B&W

October 2006

25 cents. SOLD OUT

read: sketchbook drawings

 

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brain-mouth-heart-penis

A skeleton man has an existential dialogue with different parts of himself. I realized recently that I subconsciously borrowed a gag from the Earthworm Jim cartoon show for this premise.

8 pp., sewn binding, B&W

September 2006

50 cents. SOLD OUT

read: brain-mouth-heart-penis